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The scene’s soundtrack adds oboe notes and piano motifs to the film’s initial music, culminating at 1:10 in a triumphal orchestral passage. Aurora replies nothing more than “Thank you!” Unfortunately, the Passengers soundtrack ends with “Levitate,” an inappropriately cheerful number performed by Imagine Dragons. Newman’s soundtrack nevertheless says everything else about the rise of digital music in science fiction films, even as it harks back to Hollywood products of the 1950s and 1960s, momentarily combining nostalgia with an imagined and Disneyfied future.^[10]